Of pcvw girls who work at the mouths of ...

Of pcvw girls who work at the mouths of the co:J pits. Same prudish people olaimed that the costóme woni by these girls, which is actually necessaiy in their work, was immoral. A measnre prohibiting it had been introduced, had passed the cominons and was about to pass the house of lords, whenMiss Muller, haviug acquainted herself with the facts iu the case, deterniined to prevent it. She took a delegation f pit wornen f rom Northumberlaiid to London at her own expense, hired a large hall in the Strand and called a mass meeting. The girls, dressed in their working clothes, sat beside the speakers, who in turn told the people what a cruel thing it would be to depri ve these poor girls of their inherited occupation, as sometimes whole families were dependent upon their labors. The women were urged with loud cheers to go on with the crusade. The girls were taken to the house of lords, and when the titled members saw the modest looking women dressed in a respectable costume of serge trousers reaching to their feet and flamiel blouses hanging below their knees and heard the hardships that would result froru the suppression of their lubor thoy threw out the bill. Miss Logan says she never ascertained the Dames of tho.se who so nearly succeeded in haviug the bill made a law, but was told they belouged to that class referred to by Mrs. Browning as "good Christians, who sit still in easy chairs and damn the general world for standing up. "